I just don't forecast renting it all. it's personal living space for family & friends. 

Benefit from group discussions with like-minded peers and live Q&As with your real estate instructors.

Are you looking for long-term wealth accumulation, passive income streams, or short-term profits?

@Karl Dunlaphouse hack, live-in flip, or standard long term rental with minor cosmetics or value add

Yes, that is the original house hacking strategy, but it really only works well if you've built up enough equity over the time you lived in the first one to depart and end up no money in when you refi.

To do it, you'd have to live like a pauper for several years.

I lived in GA myself for many years, great market to invest in around ATL. 

So basically would I be able to live in one side and rent the other side in a duplex . 

Even though they were no longer my tenant every time the update the bankruptcy I would get notice from bankruptcy court that my tenant still have the right to stay in the unit as continuance kept happing even though they had not live there any more for months.

There are also frequently multiple homes on the same lot or that offer dual living potential.